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Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...

‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement

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‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...

70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison & GMB demand 10%...

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SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war

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Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...

‘We will win’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘It’s very good to see that the British Airways pilots are ready to strike – things are coming to a head,’ locked out Gate...
Trade unionists fighting pensions cuts – not prepared to work longer, pay more and get less

Cost of living has risen by a third since 2008 – PARENTS WITH TWO...

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Soaring childcare and transport costs, plus cuts to tax credits, mean families need to earn a third more today than they did just five...
The Popular Assembly in session on Sunday night in the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens

Greece: Call For A ‘Political General Strike’

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An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...
GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!

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THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...
Up to a hundred patients and supporters marched in Enfield on Thursday night to demand the immediate reopening of the Bush Hill Park Medical Practice which had been arbitrarily closed by Enfield PCT with only one day’s notice

Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!

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The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...

‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse

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JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...

‘Don’t put children ‘at the mercy of the market’

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THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...
BRIAN HAW (centre), a victim of Blair’s Serious Organised Crime and Police Act – His picket line outside the House of Commons was dismantled by 78 riot police – yesterday his appearance at the High Court for alleged breach of bail conditions was postponed

Prescott-Blair Fate Linked

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Pressure mounted on deputy prime minister Prescott to quit yesterday, with Labour MPs queueing up to say he should go despite warnings that if...

Amsterdam Horror!

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THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...
A scene from the military-police civil war exercise in Kilkis, Greece

Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!

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THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...
MPs and Bombardier workers outside the House of Commons where the workers demanded that the government defend their jobs

17,000 jobs rely on Bombardier!

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‘AT THE end of the day this is being portrayed as a trade war, but it’s workers who will be suffering, thousands of them...

GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY! – EIS survey

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AN increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and a number are displaying signs of stress and lethargy, according to...

Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!

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WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

‘UNCOVER POLICE LIES’ – demands the de Menezes family

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‘JEAN Charles did not run from the police. He was unjustly assassinated on the London metro,’ the brother of Jean Charles de Menezes said...
GMB members employed by private company Medirest are organising to join tomorrow’s march from Southall Broadway to Ealing Hospital

Defend Ealing Maternity!

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EALING Hospital workers and other workers throughout Ealing and Southall are stopping work for two hours tomorrow and joining the march to keep the...
Children joined the 50-strong mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning calling for strike action and occupation to save the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward

Keep Ealing Children’s Ward Open!

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‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...
Nurses marching to defend the NHS demanding the 1% pay cap be scrapped

SMASH 1% PAY CAP! 40,000 nursing vacancies in NHS

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THERE are not enough nurses to provide safe patient care, shows a survey released today to coincide with a mass lunchtime demonstration...
Striking prison officers outside Brixton prison yesterday

ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise

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Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

Academy Expenses Scandal!

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AN INVESTIGATION into academy schools has revealed that huge sums of public money are being spent on expenses claims for academy bosses. The investigation, which...

RENATIONALISE RAIL – only answer to huge fare hikes

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RAIL ticket price hikes of up to 5.1% came into force yesterday with the RMT, Unite and campaign groups calling for the re-nationalisation of...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

RCN Opposes Health Bill

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THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing Hospital demanding trade unions support an occupation of the hospital to stop the closure

‘SAVING EALING MATERNITY IS VITAL!’ – workers tell the News Line

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AT EALING Hospital yesterday morning, midwives, nurses and other workers told News Line that they want trade union action to stop the closure of...

Rail Unions Taking Strike Action!

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TRAIN drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their...

Russia Is Accused Of Setting Up A Provisional Ukrainian Government

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US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!

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THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...

Blair Profiles Poor For Special Measures

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday revealed his plan to use the same profiling techniques that are being used to identify ‘terrorists’ to identify...

Police Corruption Review Over Lawrence Murder

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HOME Secretary, Theresa May has ordered a new ‘QC-led review’ into allegations that police corruption hampered the original failed investigation, nineteen years after the...

MET POLICE SPYING BREACHED HUMAN RIGHTS! – says Investigatory Powers Tribunal

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AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...

Working class kids denied education!

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THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...

Blairites Abandon Sinking Ship

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Yesterday a junior defence minister and six parliamentary private secretaries resigned over Prime Minister Blair’s refusal to name a date for his departure. Junior defence...

‘No Deal – Nothing On The Table!’– Junior Doctors to strike from March 13

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‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...

US, UK & France ‘complicit in possible Saudi war crimes’ – Amnesty

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A NEW report by Amnesty International reveals that precision-guided bombs made by the United States have been used in Saudi-led deadly airstrikes against civilians...

Cameron-TUC alliance!

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TORY PM Cameron and ex-TUC leader Brendan Barber have ‘put their differences aside’ and joined forces to write a joint article published in...
Nurses on the march on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration to defend the NHS

Take Action To Increase Nurse Numbers!

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TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...
Health workers last Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration in London against the government’s cuts

‘NHS Up For Sale!’

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‘NHS hospitals and their contents – including hundreds of thousands of beds, scanners, X-ray equipment, incubators, bedpans, syringes, operating theatre equipment, pacemakers, surgical instruments...

Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...